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Tuesday, August 28, 1917
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The Headlines
Wilson Is Nearly Ready to Send Reply to Pope
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Over There
George M. Cohan
The must-have
Lincoln Logs
On This Day
Ten suffragists, members of the Silent Sentinels, are arrested while picketing the White House in favor of women's suffrage in the United States.
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You Share a Birthday With
- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749)
- Jack Kirby (1917)
- C. Wright Mills (1916)
- George Whipple (1878)
- Andrei Platonov (1899)
Slang
Slang of the decade
General
lousysnapshotmovies
Soldiers
over the topblightyno man's landcooties
Suffragette
deeds not wordsvotes for women
Tech Check
Modern Zipper & Drone Torpedoes.
Cost of Living (1910)
Loaf of Bread
$0.06
Gallon of Gas
$0.15
Average Home
$3,600
New Car
$950
Time Elapsed
39,729 days ago
(108 years, 309 days)